This Marine Notice reminds shipowners, operators, masters, crews, recognised organisations, marine pilots and pilotage providers about their obligation to provide and ensure continued safe pilot transfer arrangements on ships.
In this edition we explain how you can design your own forms for surveys, we clarify the EPIRB requirements for life raft, discuss disputed deficiencies during initial survey and more.
Following the oil spill at Port Stanvac in South Australia on 28 June 1999, an inquiry was undertaken to investigate the reason for the spill and whether any corporation or individuals were responsible and should be prosecuted.
Following the Pasha Bulker grounding off Newcastle on 8 June 2007, three separate inquiries were undertaken to investigate the circumstances surrounding the cause of, and response to, the incident.